David P. Goldman is a senior editor of First Things.

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Why We Will Miss Angelo Codevilla

We have lost a brilliant man defined by his sage counsel, his moral outrage, and his profound love of the West. Continue Reading »

28 Sep 2021

China’s Sovereignty Tripwire in Hong Kong

China will tolerate no infringement on its sovereignty anywhere, because loss of sovereignty anywhere poses a threat to all Chinese sovereignty everywhere. Continue Reading »

2 Dec 2019

How Not to Restore American Industry

Senator Josh Hawley's “Competitive Dollar and Prosperity Act” will do nothing to help industrial employment, but it might do a good deal of harm. Continue Reading »

8 Aug 2019

In Defense of Sir Roger

It seems odd that Scruton’s four-year-old speech should now cause controversy. Continue Reading »

13 Nov 2018

The Real Modern Anti-Semitism

To say that Viktor Orban is anti-Semitic is outrageously wrong. Continue Reading »

6 Jul 2018

An Inquisition Is Not a Witch-Hunt

Members of traditional religions became moral outlaws in the United States once equal rights for sexual preference and gender choice were enshrined in regulation and law. This Inquisition, though, will not be defeated by reasoned pleas but by concerted counterattacks. Continue Reading »

28 Jun 2016

Something Israel Cannot Do

“Both sides,” wrote my colleague R.R. Reno in “Bad Dreams,” his “On the Square” entry yesterday, “recognize that the future outlines of a Palestinian state will roughly follow the 1967 boundaries, with a few square miles (perhaps fewer) in East Jerusalem as the (admittedly very) wild card.” … Continue Reading »

19 Nov 2010

Disappearing Middle Eastern Christians, Disappointing Bishops

“Catholic Church: Christ nullified God’s promises to the Jews,” reads the headline on the Israel Today website. That is not quite true: at the just-concluded Synod of Middle East Bishops, a cleric from the tiny group of Melkite Greeks, Archbishop Cyril Salim Bustros, made such a statement on behalf of the Melkites, not the Catholic Church… . Continue Reading »

25 Oct 2010

Germany’s Multicultural Failure

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel is at once the brightest and least ideologically driven of world leaders. The daughter of an East German Lutheran pastor, she came of age when Protestant churches were the focal point of opposition. She earned a doctorate in quantum chemistry, and rose to leadership in Germany’s Christian Democratic Union through brains and grit, much like Lady Thatcher in England a generation earlier… . Continue Reading »

22 Oct 2010

Israeli Christians: Uncomfortable Minority, Mutual Opportunity

Sandro Magister, the authoritative Vatican watcher at La Repubblica, last week noted one of the most significant and under-reported facts about Christian life in the Middle East: Christian numbers are growing in only one country in the region, namely the State of Israel. Elsewhere, Muslim hostility is smothering Christian life… . Continue Reading »

11 Oct 2010